Wyndham

After a much needed rest day after the Bungles we headed for Wyndham where the 5 rivers meet. The Pentecost river, Durack river, Ord river, Forest river and the King river. As soon as we arrived we refuelled at the local garage and asked the lady there if there was somewhere safe we could leave the caravans because we were not able to take them up the lookout. She was very kind and said we could leave them behind the garage, so we unhitched and headed up the hill. The scenery was magnificent we could see for miles.

Funny thing happened on the way up, Michelle radioed us and said, “Watch out there is a dick head coming down towing a caravan”. Keeping in mind that there are big signs No Caravans and small winding road to the top of the lookout. Jock replied to Michelle, “you wanna hope he doesn’t have a radio too”. Then we heard a voice say, “I do”. Well we were all in stitches.

Whilst up at the lookout we bumped into the man who had been fishing with Jock and Trevor at Willie Creek, the one I had a great sunset picture of him fishing. Brilliant, I got his wives mobile number and sent her the photo of him. We do bump in to a lot of people we have already seen on these roads with us all taking in the great tourist spots. When we came down the hill we went for a little drive around, the Historic Wharf, the community Jetty where we saw some kids fishing after school. There is certainly some old machinery hanging about here and it is a shame to see there are closed shops in what must have been the main town once upon a time.

We returned to the garage and hooked up the vans then it was a sneaky coffee from the most northern bakery in Western Australia called the Croc Bakery. Time now to find a camp site for the night, we headed for the salt flats and very nice it was too. We set up camp and then took the dogs over on to the flats to have a run, their last freedom was way back at Cable beach they went absolutely nuts.

Wood was gathered ready for our fire and we took in our fantastic view for the night. We do have some brilliant free camps here in Australia and I have to say this one is in the top 3 so far this trip.

Our new neighbours Joan and Neal joined us by the fire, Joan was a little concerned being there on their own and was quite relieved we came along. We had a good night with them, lots of laughs. The sunset was fantastic and no photo is really going to do it justice.